AMERICAN WATER WORKS COMPANY INC Reports Operating Results (10-Q)

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Aug 04, 2010
AMERICAN WATER WORKS COMPANY INC (AWK, Financial) filed Quarterly Report for the period ended 2010-06-30.

American Water Works Company Inc has a market cap of $3.77 billion; its shares were traded at around $21.56 with a P/E ratio of 17.5 and P/S ratio of 1.6. The dividend yield of American Water Works Company Inc stocks is 3.9%.AWK is in the portfolios of Louis Moore Bacon of Moore Capital Management, LP, John Keeley of Keeley Fund Management, Jim Simons of Renaissance Technologies LLC, Bruce Kovner of Caxton Associates, Stanley Druckenmiller of Duquesne Capital Management, LLC, George Soros of Soros Fund Management LLC.

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Revenues for the three months ended June 30, 2010 increased by $58.5 million compared to the same period in the prior year. This was primarily due to increased revenues in our Regulated Businesses of $47.3 million, which was mainly attributable to rate increases and increased consumption, and an increase in our Non-Regulated Businesses revenues of $11.1 million, which was primarily attributable to higher revenues in the Contract Operations Group of $10.7 million. The increase in Contract Operations Group revenues was primarily due to revenues of $9.4 million attributable to our entry into the industrial Operations and Maintenance (O&M) market through an acquisition in December of 2009, hereafter referred to as the Contract Operations Acquisition, and increased military contract revenues of $2.6 million due to increased capital improvement as Fort Hood and Fort Polk became fully operational in 2010 and the addition of Fort Belvoir and Fort Meade contracts partially offset by a decrease in design and build contract revenues.

Operating expenses for the three months ended June 30, 2010 were $475.2 million compared to $455.5 million for the three months ended June 30, 2009. This $19.7 million increase was primarily driven by increased operating and maintenance expenses in our Non-Regulated Businesses of $12.7 million and increased operating expenses in our Regulated Businesses operation and maintenance costs of $1.0 million, higher depreciation expense of $2.4 million and increased general taxes of $2.1 million for the three months ended June 30, 2010 compared to the three months ended June 30, 2009.

Revenues for the six months ended June 30, 2010 increased by $96.4 million compared to the same period in the prior year. This was primarily due to increased revenues in our Regulated Businesses of $69.5 million, which was largely attributable to rate increases, and an increase in our Non-Regulated Businesses revenues of $28.0 million, which was primarily attributable to higher revenues in the Contract Operations Group of $25.4 million. The increase in Contract Operations Group revenues was primarily due to revenues of $20.8 million attributable the Contract Operations Acquisition as well as increased military contract revenues of $7.7 million partially offset by lower design and build contract revenues. The increase in the military contract revenues was mainly attributable to increased capital improvement work due to being fully operational at Fort Hood and Fort Polk in 2010 and the addition of Fort Belvoir and Fort Meade contracts.

Operating expenses for the six months ended June 30, 2010 were $937.2 million compared to $1,341.1 million for the six months ended June 30, 2009. Impairment charges were $450.0 million for the six months ended June 30, 2009. All other operating expenses totaled $937.2 million for the six months ended June 30, 2010 compared to $891.1 million for the six months ended June 30, 2009. This $46.1 million increase was primarily driven by an increase in our Non-Regulated Businesses of $30.3 million and increased operating expenses in our Regulated Businesses of $16.6 million for the six months ended June 30, 2010 compared to the six months ended June 30, 2009. The increase in the Non-Regulated Businesses operating expenses was primarily the result of higher operating and maintenance expenses of $28.5 million, corresponding with the increased revenue. The Regulated Businesses increase in operating expenses was mainly driven by higher operations and maintenance expenses of $6.8 million, higher depreciation expense of $5.5 million and increased general taxes of $4.2 million.

Rate Case Development During the three months ended June 30, 2010, we received authorizations for additional annualized revenues from general rate cases totaling $118.6 million. In April 2010, our Illinois rate case and our New Mexico rate case, both of which were filed in 2009, were approved authorizing additional annualized revenues of $41.4 million effective April 23, 2010 and $0.5 million effective May 10, 2010, respectively. On April 30, 2010, our Indiana rate case, also filed in 2009, was approved authorizing additional annualized revenues of $31.5 million. In May 2010, our Ohio rate case which was filed in 2009 was approved authorizing additional annualized revenue of $2.6 million effective May 19, 2010. In June 2010, our Missouri rate case, which was filed for in October 2009 was approved authorizing additional annualized revenues of $28.0 million effective July 1, 2010. Also in June 2010, our California rate case, which was filed in 2009, was approved authorizing additional annualized revenue of $14.6 million. These new rates are effective July 1, 2010 for the Sacramento and Larkfield districts and for Los Angeles County will be retroactive back to January 1, 2010. On May 2010, new rates which would provide for an additional $0.6 million of annualized revenues were put into effect under bond for one of our Virginia subsidiaries. In addition to the general rate case increases in April and May 2010, additional annualized revenues of $1.8 million resulting from infrastructure charges for our Pennsylvania subsidiary became effective.

During the three months ended June 30, 2010, we filed four general rate cases. In April 2010, we filed a general rate case in New Jersey requesting additional annualized revenue of $84.7 million and four wastewater applications in Pennsylvania requesting additional annualized revenues of $11.7 million. On May 3, 2010 we filed an initial general rate case in California and on July 1, 2010 filed an update to that filing for a total request of additional annualized revenue of $53.9 million, including staged increases in 2013 and 2014 of $9.9 million and $10.9 million, respectively. In June 2010, we filed a general rate case in West Virginia requesting additional annualized revenues of $18.4 million.

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